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In the D-Mod I'm making right now, I want to have something like 24 different spells. However, I've found that spells aren't an entirely easy thing to think up. So if you have a great idea for a spell that would be pretty cool in a D-Mod, please reply.

I truly doubt I'll get 24 spells made... but, if I plan to make 24, I'm sure I could get at least 12 done.

Well there are the obvious but boring clones of Fireball and Acid Rain. I was at one point making a Time freeze spell to stop enemies for a few seconds. For CC2 there is the "Bonca Stampede" spell, which creates a load of Bonca's off screen, freezes the game, and all the boncas charge along hurting the enemies.
I'll have a think though...

something that comes out from the ground and hit the enemy

something that needs a BIG magic level:it makes the enemy just dissapear

oh give me some time,i'm full of ideas

I've don't some interesting things with invisible projectiles. Basically you make the shot sp_novis and really fast and you get the effect that Dink is just "pointing" at the monster and casting. Then you can have it struck by lightning, summon a monster to attack it or whatever.

I also cinsidered a spell that created temporery barriers for Crosslink, but discarded it. I don't know if the idea as any merit.

And don't forget about non-combat spells.

i made a soulburn/drain life spell a while back that i have yet to use (maybe bloodlords...) basically, you shoot an enemy with a black fireball. it sends back a white fireball, if you catch it, you gain life equal to damage dealt.

How the flying fluff do you plan to add these 24 spells so dink can acctually HOLD them?

You can use spellbooks,

a fire spellbook ( 6 spells )
a water spellbook ( 6 spells )
a earth spellbook ( 6 spells )
a wind spellbook ( 6 spells )

and when dink uses the book, a choice menu is displayed

I had a idea of a golem that kinda followed dink around and attacked everybody... ( Earth spell )

how original ^
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I had that idea, before I discovered the network, but I only create_sprited him, so he didnt do anything

How bout something like earthquake, the earth opening up and swallowing the enemies?

You could also have something like a petrification spell, turns your enemies into statues.

Lessee. These are mostly stolen from other games or from my weird comic-book of geek superheroes.
-Inivisibility (I guess you'd have to use some kind of transparent Dink so the player could still see him, but make it so enemies couldn't...)
-Shapeshifting
-Summoning (not neccessarily "good" versions of "evil" enemies, either... I'd create totally new summons and use those, but that's just me...)
-Poision magic (cast on an enemy and it loses a certain percentage of HP every couple seconds)
-Demi (cast and all enemies on the screen lose 1/4 their HP. Usually bosses are immune to it.)
-Holy magic (Only especially evil enemies would be vulnerable to it)
-Telekinesis
-Increase Strength/magic/whatever (would only last a few seconds, but the casters' strength/magic/whatever would be doubled or something)
-Increasing levels of elemental spells (for example, in Final Fantasy X you have Fire, then Fira, then Firaga, all of which do increasing amounts of fire damage.)
-Regenerate Life (cast on self, basically the opposite of poison where you gain a percentage of your total life points back every couple seconds)
-Reflect (cast on self, reflects any spell the enemy casts at you back to it)
-Protect (increases defense against physical attack)
-Spell Eater (maybe a single cast or somesuch... instead of a spell cast on you doing damage, any spell cast on you gives you an equivalent amount of life instead)
-Glue (an enemy is frozen in one spot for a short while)
-Various projectile spells (needles, fire, ducks, what-have-you...)
-Banish/Death (When cast, has a % chance of instantly killing the opponent. Again, bosses are usually immune...)

Um... that's all I can think of for now, I'm sure I'll come up with more later though...

Ey! Did you watch Dragonball Z?
It would be cool that Dink has a transformasion like SDS-Super Dink Smallwood and has different hair-style and his magic and power raises but his def lowers a bit!

or a spell that makes the enemy desintegrate in some way...
or turning the enemy in to an dead object

Well... I don't want to give anything away, but it wouldn't be a clunky spellbook or anything.

And thanks for all of the replies so far, everybody!

Maybe you'd have no items. ;p
(8 magic slots + 16 item slots = 24)

And this may be a little lame, but there's always path clearing spells (eg sonic blast shatters the crystalls in your way, probably does damage to ememies too)

Somewhat similarly, how about a see invisible spell that would reaveal hidden items/passage/creatures.

Wouldnt it be cool if u just pressed F1 like in diablo and theres ur Fireball spell F2 and theres ur rain spell and they all charge up seperatly but only when ur actually using it so u could like charge up all ur spells before a battle and go in shooting every gangsta in your way.

I have many ideas but am to lazy to post

Sorta. There really isn't any way to make spells charge independently, but there will be a way to hotkey spells (I was thinking of using the 1-8 keys, but I could make it so the F1-F8 keys worked as well).

lol, no, there will be quite a few new items as well. Let's just say that there is no possible way to have all of the spells at one time.

Another idea,

Maybe a spell where you shoot a mine and that sticks to the nme, after 30 secs it explodes.

Or a net to keep the nme alive and pin him to the wall. So you can interrogate him/her or take him in. (interesting for a mission with bring the villian back to prison).

Or maybe a shrinking spell? (but I think that one allready exists).

A spell to change the colors on blocks (for use in puzzels, so when the blocks get the right color something gets triggered...)

A spell to make little plants grow so that they become a ladder... (lol, if you think along that way, Golden Sun 2 has loads of those idea's , just finished that )

Hmm, better leave some room for the other DN-members to post there idea's (the more the better , right redink1?)

Greetz,
Shampoo

It kinda needs to be in the right timeline. Mine's wont work

Think I see where you're going with this.

Also I made a little item and spell hotkeying system, it doesn't go with any particular d-mod, maybe I'll upload it.

Do I hear Morrowind Influences there?
Oh, whatever... You could make a weakening spell that lowers the sp_touch_damage, sp_strength, sp_defense or something.
Also I was thinking of needles. Just another application of the pig-food-anims. You just throw away some needles, and everything that touches them will SUFFER!! (Basically just a very long-lasting-low-damage-bomb, but it's the idea.)

I had what I thought was a good spell idea to implement into a dmod I started, but real life has a way of interfering with all of my fun. If anyone likes the idea and wants to use it, be my guest. I'm not going to upload or anything because the graphics are crummy and the coding is relatively simple.
Random spell failure: 1 in 20 times Dink fails his spell casting, stands on one leg, flaps his arms, and fish fall from the sky.

Here's a couple of ideas:
You could make a spell have a percentage, based on magic level or whatever, that made enemies 'target' a conjured stone or whatnot, and have it have a really high hitpoints, but no defence or attack.

Also maybe a 'haste' spell that prevents you from having anymore magic cast while its in use, for ~1 min?

I think a spell which changes the brain of the enemy would be fun. Making a goblin move like a duck. Or reversing the animation sequence, which might be nice for attack sequences. Or a spell which inflates the enemy, making him float into the air...

Another Idea ,

Hypnotise!! (for instance dink hypnotizes a goblin and the goblin enters a secret code, and gives you acces to certain area's) For instance leveling up the hypnotise spell lets you control even more.

Or if you want to make it complete: make it a hypnotise spell like in Oddworld's Abe's Oddysey (or exodus , ...) Where you posess the creature and gain all the advantages/weaknesses of that character. (As described above, posess a goblin guard and get in higher security levels)

Sounds cool i think ...

Greetz,
Shampoo

Du no Abe looks like a boglin Shampoo, waht do you guyz think?

That's not what I meant Kory. In this case possess means that you crawl into the body of the GOBLIN (not boglin), so you can move with his body (and that actually can be done by just blanking out the screen come back and dink is a goblin, or slime, or ..., anyway now i think of it, similar stuff exists with a DMOD where you can choose to be a bonca, slime, and stuff, using some kind of spellbook).

greetz,
Shampoo

I'd had many ideas, but I'm not going to tell them to YOU since I'm going to use them in my own dmod.

wouldnt bullet time be sorta cool?

Well it sure isn't hard. Spike uses bullet time but just a note - It CAN go real slow

Well in my game (which i'll do sometime, i swear) I've got multiple levels to my spells, which go up as you use em ala secret of mana style, so there's 10 levels, and 3 distinct styles they take. My spells are:

fire, just the normal fireball, at level 5 is basically hellfire, and somethin at 10

ice, basically ripping POTA...

lightning, creates a bolt of lightning, works pretty well actually, it just creates about 10x10 graphics in a line, branching at each one in one of three directions, so it's spuratic. as it levels up it splits more and hits more stuff..

earth, creates a spike on a random enemy.. looks pretty cool..

spirit, summons a guardian, real simple

light, it's like a light beam that bounces off of walls and goes in and out of enemies at random directions.. bounces and splits more as it levels..

darkness i haven't done yet.. i think it's just gonna be a shield of some kind, really have no idea, but boosting your defense and eventually putting something up that hurts enemies nearby.

Those are my 7 spells based on the crystals, i was gonna have another that you start with that levels up to, no idea what it'll be...

Something I created for EFPI..a jump attack. Maybe you could create something like that.

Its not magic but its cool.

Bullet time? Why don't you have it so fricking agents start appearing, and you can fly and do kung fu as well? Or better yet, why not just make the main character Neo?

How about turning the enemies into animals?
The player will have a choice:

1) Kill the monster and get the xp and the reward

2) Turn the monster into an animal and kill it with one hit butn won't get the xp or reward

Create a "nova" type spell like a ring of fire that comes from Dink and damages everyone on the screen.

Make explosion magic. Shoot a fireball and when it hits, it explosed like a bomb.

A poison spell that keeps damaging enemies until they die.

That;ll make it too easy, just keep on casting it, and you won't have to fight at all!

But then you won't level up or get money to buy weapons.

This spell couldn't be used for bosses or important monsters. Just regular ones.

When I used to play pen and paper AD&D a high level cleric was allowed to ceate his own spell.
Power word orgasm. Yup. Then when we would meet a vampire or some deamon he'd point at them and say "CUM !" and they'd get all distracted giving us the initiative.Of course if they made thier saving throws, they'd just kinka walk funny. I'm not sure how to script 2 pillbugs getting rude with eachother though.
Or how about a distraction spell that causes each creature to attack another sprite at random?

Sudden death? A ball of bagic that hurts badly the enemy.

Lightning spell? A thunder thatcomes from sky and hurts maybe all enemies.

Berserker spell? A spell that hurts the enemies 'roun Dink.

Magic of spirits? If got the first 23 spells, the 24th would have the power of the other 23, super damage, 1 enemy.

Heh. I've already got 24 spell ideas figured out, but thanks for continuing to suggest things. And thanks to everyone for your spell suggestions, they helped a lot!

I always wanted to make a whirl wind spell that spawned a tornado sprite that would run around and hit everything

Whee, a sack of pig feed which appears from thin air and jumps on a enemy and squishes it! With lots of gibs!!

well i think u should have spells like

Dragon Summon -summons a dragon
Wind Gust-shoots wind
LandShake-causes a earthquake
Bomb Shooter-shoots a bomb
Warper-teleports you onto a diff part on screen
Reality Bender-bends reality but kinda like a demi from ff games (but it wud be hard to program)
Blood Bust-sprays blood
Exploding Duck-makes a duck walk upto it and the ducks head explodes and acid rain comes out of neck
Heal-Heals yourself

also i think you should make it so you can have a classic rpg party (i mean like a team lol)
that you can contact using magic that come and help you

how about the spells dink suggested in the first dink like throwing death from his hands and summoning chicks outta nowere and flying and whatnot

i liked the shapeshifting idea tho

I think lasers that shoot from dinks outstretched hand and randomly attack enemys for small damage but multiple hits would be good.